MY wine career has been what I refer to as ‘ working in the trenches ‘ teaching and sharing what I have learned with y customers that have come to Cleveland Park Wine and Spirits where I have managed the wine department since 2000! I have loved it and benefited equally from what my customers have shared with me - mutually beneficial and satisfying to us both I believe and hope! Cheers on Monday, August 19 2024 the day the Democratic National Convention starts in Chicago!

 

I have loved what I have done with my wine career that has mirrored my art career, they have travelled with me hand-in-hand I am thrilled for this.

I have met many people and shared any glorious moments with them and I am so blessed and privileged for all of this. Thank you, Grazie, gracias, merci for all of this!

I have met many owners of wineries, winemakers, both, people from all around the world, in all professions, all ages, all beliefs, religions or not, colors, all styles I’d dress and fashion, all arts, from poor to rich, students, beginners in wine, seasoned and lovers of wine, all!

I have,Ed a life rich in experiences and not in the pursuit of money.

In my art that I am turning to as I close on December 24, 2024 my career at Cleveland Park Wine and Spirits y stint there , on my art I want to find happy homes for it. In y pursuit of following my art paths I have chosen as best I can to carve and to wind and paint, draw, write, hum, fumble, stamp, stomp, flash, strip, be untamed, raw spontaneous, quick, do and not think or overthink, keep up with my flashes of insights and inspirations as best as I may as best as I can! WOW! I am out of breath! I have called much of what I do ‘ working on empty ‘! I love it! I love it all! 

I am an optimist, a child with wonder and awe, glee, gladness, silliness, sass I ess, salacious, thundering, thirsty, brave, an exhibitionist, a nudist at heart, nude when I can and may be, including my socially acceptable nakedness in all my pictures as often as I may. I push all my limits, I challenge, I stand up for what I believe, I am embarrassed for having,Ed in the blind , unaware, privileged, upset at this, astounded and mad and furious at the way the world runs, the very few wealthy selfish, bullying few, the inequality, the injustice, the suffering, the hungry, the abused, the raped, the men telling women still what to do with their bodies. 

Enough is enough, politics and those in power being swayed by money, power, greed, safety for themselves and their families, the keeping of so many uneducated so they may serve our needs, follies, fantasies, whims so that we do not have to do the hard work ourselves!

Time for change, time for Kamala Harris to become our next President of the United States of America and for Donald Trump to got prison for all the wrongs he has   committed and all the pain he has inflicted everywhere!

This picture above is taken at our home enjoying a fine meal with fine wine from Argentina from Nicolas Catena! And great ripening peaches from North Carolina on our refectory table I purchased from Sally Kravitz , wife of  Dan Kravitz  of Hand Picked Selections with money and some of my art! Thank you Dally, this was a present to my wife for her birthday and we love it still!

Loved meeting you Nicolas Catena , with Nora Favelukas, at her invitation to help Nicolas start his career here in the United States back in the early nineties. We met the three of us for lunch  at Bilbo Baggins Cafe in Old Towne Alexandria.

Thank you all!

I do it all with love! Anthony TONY Quinn 8/19/2024

Sunday with two red dryChambourcin hybrid red wines Sunday November 26 2023 herein Virginia tasting a Chambourcin from Nebraska and one from Virginia with Doug Fabbioli

we wentoutto FabbioliCellars to see ownervand winemaker Doug Fabbioli in Loudoun county and try these two Chambourcin dry reds with him, what a treat, what a contrast! Tony 11/26/2023

Love wine love people love an audience love life eat it all UP!

cheers! Tony 9!16/2023 happy gorgeous Saturday!

Videos I. Are during Covid and am posting now! With left Foot Charley Michigan orange wine, and fine Santeney red French Burgundy Init Noir, and Tamara Wilkerson of the Downey Cellars Italian fine wines like the Count FerdinandobGuichiardininTuescan vin santo Tuscany, with thvRcBordeaux estate wines, France, Stone Hill Winery, Missouri sparkling rose, withbJuliacJackson of the Jackson Family wineryvandcEstates and Cambriavwines, with Graham Isaac and his Cites de Brouilly Cru NpBeaujolais, and more

enjoy my wine Covid videos! Tony 8/5/2023 Julia JacksonCambria Vineyards special Chardonnay project honoringvwomen's contributions to the fabric of our lives a d helpingnothercwomen to succeed, too! love it, sold it at @ClevelandParkWineandSpirits in Washington DC and had lunch with Julia Jackson at @CentralDcrestaurant with @ElysseKudo thanks to you all! Tony 8/5/2023

I have no idea what I posted here in my two thousand or more valid and informative wine posts that goes against community standards, open this and look and decide for yourselves asi have many posts here tha record and preserve valuable wines, and people behind them that have added immeasurably to our enjoyment of all wines, known or obscure, small family wineries that deserve recognition for their fine wines and efforts from all around the world! Cheers, Anthony Quinn 8/1=2023

check this out and decide for yourselves, these blogs are not going against any community standards, i stand by my statement here at chatwine! cheers, enjoy, decide for yourselves! Anthony TONY Quinn 7/1/2023 Happy Tuesday all, Tony Tonythewineguy@gmail.com

on vacation this week at the Outer Banks, wines posted here are from @HandPickedSelections owned by @DanKravitz and recently sold, samples provided to me by @JeanGagliolo of @Prestige!edroite that sells them to me as the wine buyer for 21 years at @Clevelandparkwibessandspirits at 3423 ConncticutcAv3nue NW Washington DC 20008, 202-363-4265 ,/ALSO my hand-written wine signs to help customers decide what to buy, Mionettosold tgrough @NarayanCampbell of @GlobalWine Brut Prosecco , and tge @Angelwines of the #Ukraine, the #greensbinybottle pictured, and SO MANY MORE great wines! i am proud of all these wines we offer to provide choices for you all! it takes effort, and it is well worth it! that, to me is the definition of a good wine store - selection, variety, choices for you all to be able to make and enjoy from aroubd tge world! yay! hurray! Tony wines from Hand Pucked Selections tasted so far and highly recommended are : 1) #Penya #CotesCatalanes 2022 dry rose 90% #Garnacha and 10% #Syrah - love it, stupendously great and fine and wonderful and tasty and sublime! #highlyhighlyrecommended! Greay way to relax before eating our shrimp here at the Outer Banjs, an unexpected treat and pure delighr! 2) 2020 #LesRocailles #Savoie #Aprement #French #drywhite more oily and viscous and richer, more layered textures of honey and nuts - lovely and bright and glad i sell it already! Thoroughly enjoyed with our #juststeameda dcoojed #freshshrimp ooohh yeah! sante a tous, nerci, quel plaisir enorme! 3) #LesDarons #Languedoc 2021 by @JeffCarrel 75% Grenache 20% #Syrah and 5% #Carignan rich thick full lush bright mouth-filling great with our #Ribeyesteak last night here at the beach! @DougFabbioli owner of his ownnwinery @Fabbioli ellars in #Loudoun ounty #Virginia #finelocalwines ! Thanks Doug! Adrien talks about his fine wines of #Mendoza #Argentina , @BodegaPietranegra , sold by @NarayanCampbell of @GlobalWinesMD , tganks! Celebrating the bew Ken and Barbie movie with i wine tasting i conducted this past Friday a d Saturday, the last weekend of July 2023 , and the video i made, enjoy, tadting with Julia tgat sells her German wines to @EricPlatt of @ArtisanandVines wines lije @See richt in the #Mosel valley and tge #Franken #Silvaner, too, a d other fine wines as well, that we sell already, thanks Eric and Julia the brand new @JLo venture into alcoholic spirits with @BeamSuntory with #tequila, , and or, #amaro and another - infused with #orange #elderflower #hyacinth and #grapefruit ,all three are quite tasty and well balanced and made, 750ml bottles, in the store soon, $19.99 abottle - Go @AncientPeaksWinery inn#PasoRobles #California! liked them all! visiting in late July, the last Monday, with @NikBurgess the @Lindenvineyards inn#Lindenn#Virginia love these wines of owner and winemaker @NancyIreland of her ownn@RedQuailRedgewinerybinnthe #FingerLakes #NewYorkState #Blaufrankisch #lagrein #PinotNoir grapes and more, all very fine, thanks Nancy cheers to you Nik Burgess and the hard work you have done in Virginia to grow wine grapes, these gone wild because it upis simply too much work for one man to take care if them, and they are still glorious here, so this is my hipomnage to you and these Chardonnay grapes not far from Front Royal Virginis, i loved walking these three rows of these vines you worked so hard on to have grow and survive and bear fruit to make fine wines, bravo to youvand all your hard work, labor, live, passion and trying, i appreciate it all! they may not be tebpnepded weekly as they should have been,bsprayed weekly as they should have been, but you did what you could, bravo Nik! thanks Nick of @ZWineGallery imports of fine French wines love the wines of @SaltonHarmoniza #vinhosfinosbrasileiros inb#valledosvinhedos #Brasil obregado amigos! love the wines, too below! of @GloriaFerrer #sparklingwines in #Sonoma #Californis, predominantly #PinotNoir sparkling wines

videos to finish off with, enjoy, hope you enjoyed all of this, Tony a labor of love to present here for your enjoyment, cheers - love is in the air, a customer sats something key that i agree whokeheartedly with, bravo! The French owned rum distillerie in Martinique, love it !